CRIME AND CANNABIS

Sirs:

The sole intent of the government's public consultation on drugs seems to
be to put cannabis back into class B. If the government goes ahead with a
recriminalisation of the cannabis community, they will discover why they
put cannabis into class C originally.

The report by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research into aEPolicing
cannabis as a class C drug' shows that not much has changed as a result of
cannabis being in class C. The main difference is that the number of of
arrests for small amounts of cannabis has dropped.

The Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA) predicted that cannabis use would fall
if it was downgraded into class C. According to the government's own
figures, use has dropped by 25%. We based our prediction on the fact that
in Holland the use among the Dutch Nationals is half what it is in Britain
where it is prohibited.

ve used class A drugs have found that cannabis is the most effective way to
break a Class A addiction.

Increased addiction to pharmaceutical drugs; More distrust of the police.

The views of self-confessed cannabis users are once again being ignored by
the government despite the fact that figures suggest as many as 25% of
people have used the plant and so few have suffered from that use.

Yours etc.,

Steve Barker

Legalise Cannabis Alliance

SteveBarker@lca-uk.org

http://www.lca-uk.org